I'm a bit of a fan of Peranakan food. (See post Old China Cafe, Kuala Lumpur, March 15.) This is the cuisine of the intermarried Straits-born Chinese and Malays - who developed their own unique culture known as either Peranakan, or Baba/Nyonya. The food is less spicy than Malay but more fragrant than Chinese, with some yummy pork dishes added to the mix.
This week, a friend introduced me to the fabulous Kim Choo's Kitchen on East Coast Road, Singapore. Kim Choo, it turns out, has not only a kitchen, but (among other things!) a cake shop, a little museum, and a gift shop selling traditional ceramics, and embroidered items made on-site. The segments merge together - so you could be eating in part of the museum, or (as we did) next to an array of home-made snacks for sale!
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| Traditional snacks and biscuits for sale. |
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| Old Nyonya images upstairs in the 'museum' |
The meal was pretty good - you share several dishes, and eat with rice, as with many Asian cuisines. Oh, plus some Kueh Ambon* for dessert, which were so nice I bought a packet from the cake shop to take home for my flatmates :)
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| Embroidered slippers |
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| Gift shop (+machinists on left) |
*Kueh Ambon - apparently a sponge made from tapioca flour, egg and sugar (and yeast). The texture is extremely moist, and with an unsual 'crazy paving' style structure to the sponge!
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| Dinner in the museum (not ours though!) |
Kim Choo's Kitchen, 111 East Coast Road, Singapore 428801
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